University of Washington's Husky Film Club is facing backlash after it was revealed that they were forcing prospective members to choose between a purple pill and a gold pill. In a move that psychologists are calling “interesting” and “educational,” new members must choose between the purple pill, where you find out where your major will really take you, or the gold pill, letting you continue to live life as normal, but where you will have to write a weekly ten-page paper on the civil society of a micronation for the rest of college.

Protests have been held outside the Film Club's building for the past three days. The organizer of the protest, Annie Wilson, led chants such as “ignorance is bliss,” “keep me in the dark,” and “more micronations.”

Wilson, who has written papers on the Vatican, East Timor, and Andorra in the past month, called the experiment disturbingly unethical. "How on earth do they think it's okay to make people choose? What if I love micronations but also want to know about my future?"

Club president Henry Miller, a business major who took the purple pill, held that the experiment was harmless and in jest. "Personally, I just found that I am going to be a mega-millionaire who exploits the country of Ghana for a new resource discovered in granite. I don't see what the big deal is. I feel great!"

The whistleblower, who is choosing to remain anonymous due to fear for her safety, found out her political science major is going to lead to on-and-off unemployment for the rest of her life, similar to how Lesotho maintains high unemployment rates in the natural sciences sector. In between sobs, she told us her life was ruined. “I'm looking at applications for the school of engineering (wail) and I don’t think they’re going to accept me (sob).”

Willow Allen, a pre-med major who found out that she would spend the rest of her life paying off the debt she would accrue in medical school, said that she thought the pill was helpful. “Now I know to make better financial decisions.” Allen is currently investing all of her savings into Crocs stock, much like how Monaco invested much of its money into tourism. The Husky Film Club is expected to make a public statement sometime in the next couple of days, which will likely be followed by a Luxembourgish-style criminal tribunal about the ethicality of the experiment.